Spine disease with gressus vaccinus.
Muscles of neck stiff, sore.
Shoulder-blades and clavicle lame, as though wrenched or twisted.
Back aches; feels weak, especially in sacrum.
Sharp, shifting pain in all parts of body.
Upper limbs
Arms fall asleep.
Rough rash all over arm.
Spasmodic jerks of hand, with flexion of hand at wrist or of forearm.
Numbness and insensibility of hands and arms.
Burning in hands.
Hands deathly pale.
Coldness and numbness of right hand with tingling of ring and little fingers.
Loss of feeling in backs of fingers.
Loss of muscular power and of feeling in hand.
Fingers convulsively drawn in toward palm, clasping thumb.
Contraction of fingers.
Fingers bent backward or spasmodically abducted.
Left thumb spasmodically drawn toward dorsum of hand, followed in a few minutes by cramping and flexure of rest of fingers toward palmar surface; hands feel numb like velvet; next day both hands became affected and after several days felt a tingling and stitches in legs, followed by heaviness of same, agg. after walking, generally appearing while sitting, while cramps in hands always appear after using them.
Loss of sensation in tips of fingers.
Numbness of tips of fingers.
Crawling in tips of fingers as if something alive were creeping under skin or as if fingers were asleep, as from pressure upon arm.
Peculiar prickling feeling in tips of fingers; they are sensitive to cold.
Painful swelling of fingers.
Violent pains in finger tips.
Gangrene of fingers; senile gangrene.
Shifting pains first through my hands from one finger to another, then through the wrist joint.
Wrist weakened so it was painful to lift weight.
Sensation of burning on left hand as though irritated with Cayenne; warm after rubbing.
Dull, spasmodic pain from shoulder to elbow along median nerve, worse on right side and in morning.
Lower limbs
Hammering, tearing pain in both thighs increased by motion.
Legs heavy and tired.
Tingling in legs.
Creeping feeling in anterior femoral and posterior tibial regions.
Shuffling gait as if feet were dragged along.
Rheumatic pains of joints.
Cramps in calves of legs and soles of feet, disturbing sleep at night and hindering walking in pregnant women.
After am attack of cholera cramps in calves and sensation of numbness and formication in toes.
Cramp in calves.
Burning in feet.
The feet seem asleep and stiff.
Toes of right foot spasmodically drawn upwards, continuously during day and occasionally at night, causing a peculiar limping gait; this cramp was accompanied by no pain, but by a very tiresome sensation rendering walking, particularly going up and down stairs, very difficult; tendons running along dorsum of foot to toes were tense as wires and the corresponding muscles of leg larger and harder than normal; now and then slight sensation of coldness in back and also a peculiar buzzing (formication) in spine.
Swelling of feet with black spots.
Beginning senile gangrene; swelling and livid coloring of right foot extending to malleoli; foot cold; severe indescribable pains.
Senile gangrene commenced in great toe of right foot and slowly extended; foot was livid and swollen; all the symptoms pointed to its complete loss.
Dry gangrene of foot with constant severe, burning tearing pains.
Severe pains in sole of foot and toes; black spot on plantar surface of heel; toes livid, blue, cold; burning pains; foot swollen; walking impossible. Senile gangrene.
Profuse, stinking and corrosive perspiration of feet, softening and bleaching soles and destroying quickly stocking and shoes; existing two months in a girl eighteen years old.
Tingling in toes.
Gangrene of toes.
Shifting pains through ankles and knees.
Legs so weak gave out while walking.
Knees so weak could hardly reach top of stairs.
Legs would “give out” suddenly.
Lassitude, weakness, heaviness, trembling of limbs.
Limbs cold; covered with cold sweat.
Formication; pricking; tingling; numbness; insensibility of limbs.
Spasmodic pains; drawing and crawling in limbs.
Burning in hands and feet.
Fuzzy feeling in limbs.
Cramps in hand and toes.
Painful jerking in limbs at night.
Most violent convulsive movements of limbs occur several times a day; during intervals fingers are numb and often contracted.
Sudden periodic contraction of limbs, with tensive pain.
Contractions of hands, feet, fingers and toes.
Gangrene of limbs, limbs suddenly became cold, leaden colored and lost all sensation.
Paraplegia.
Internal pain greatly agg. by heat, whether of bed or atmosphere; somewhat amel. when exposed to a cooler atmosphere, though even then it was scarcely tolerable; the pain extended by degrees from toes to legs and thighs, and from fingers to arms and shoulders, gangrene supervened.No the slightest pain in gangrenous limb when pricked or cut, though frequently motion is not entirely lost.
Absolute insensibility of tips of fingers and toes.
Cold gangrene or limbs.
True anthrax, rapidly changing into gangrene.
Hands and feet swollen with a gangrenous black and suppurating eruption.
Pain with some swelling without inflammation, followed by coldness, blue color, cold gangrene and death of limb.
The limbs become cold, pale and wrinkled as if they had been a long time in hot water.
Have pained me much.
No strength in limbs or between shoulders.
Glad to sit down; too weak to talk; tired.
Sleep
Frequent yawning.
Inclination to sleep; drowsiness; deep, heavy sleep, stupor.
Sleep at night disturbed by frightful dreams.
Restless and sleepless.
Disturbed by distressing dreams. Surrounded by danger, constantly trying to escape evils. Sometimes my family were sick unto death, or the house on fire; again I was pouring water from one bucket into another to free it from lizards and reptiles, that would crawl over the sides of the vessels and endanger my children.
Night after night my dreams would continue of this character. I would waken, my head would be in such distress, not from pain but oppression. I would turn my pillow and change my position to endeavor to forget my dreams, and after some time would again fall asleep, to be awakened by another equally unpleasant dream.
This condition of head and sleep lasted six or seven weeks. (November 17th to January 5th.).
Fever
Disagreeable sensation of coldness in back, abdomen and limbs.
Skin cold, with shivering.
Coldness of surface of body, particularly extremities.
Violent chill of but short duration; followed soon after by internal burning heat, with great thirst.
Chill with thirst.
Violent shaking followed by violent heat, with anxiety, delirium and almost unquenchable thirst.
Intense, icy coldness of skin, with shivering; pale, sunken face.
Cold limbs, cold sweat, great weakness.
Cold stage preceded by vomiting, succeeded by moderate sweating.
Severe and long-lasting dry heat, with great restlessness and violent thirst.
Heat with thirst and hot skin.
Burning heat, interrupted by shaking chills, then internal burning heat, with great thirst.
Sweat: all over body, except face; profuse cold, cold limbs; from head to pit of stomach; especially on upper body; cold, clammy over whole body; colliquative.
Exhausting perspiration, accompanied by evening fever and alarming cough.
Cold surface, sunken pale face and blue lips; will not be covered; tingling in limbs; holds hands with fingers widely spread apart; cold, clammy sweat; speech feeble, stuttering.
Ague.
Aversion to heat or to being covered; may feel cold but does not wish to be covered.
Great tendency to typhoid. Intermittent.
Chilly sensation from least motion in bed at night, not ameliorated by covering up.
Chilly all over, especially shoulders and back, but do not shiver or shake.
Kept limbs drawn up close to body, are too cold to lie straightened out; they ache but are too cold to straighten out.
Limbs and whole body ache as though tired and lame, particularly hips and knees.
Get warm about 5 A.M., then hands, chest and back moist with perspiration.
Chill at 11 A.M., lasting three hours.
Chills would creep up and down the back between the shoulders, spreading down and out into the limbs.
Chills in back up and down the spine.
Fever followed with great oppression of face and head.
Desired fresh air constantly, though walking any distance would aggravate the headache, especially over eyes and through the forehead.
Slight in the morning.
Hands, back and chest moist with perspiration about 5 o’clock in the morning.
Severe chill, from 4 A.M. to 10 A.M., in small of back, along spine; during chill, shooting pains chiefly in legs and arms; very thirsty during chill, little thirst during or after the fever; slight sweat; mouth dry; wants to drink continually; violent nausea; vomiting great quantity of bile, superficial congestion; veins of extremities very full.
A man, 67, has suffered from emphysema and asthma; cardiac complications with hypertrophy and weak, rapid, irregular pulse; Agg. by ascending stairs and walking. For two or three years been subject to attacks of severe coldness that came on irregularly, followed by great weariness for two days. The hands and feet became pale and cold with an intense feeling of weariness; some throbbing of head which seemed warm; after some hours limbs became warm again leaving only weariness. Temperature, normal during attacks; arteriosclerosis was no doubt due to tension of arteries and its consequent anemia. Aconite, Arsenic, Cedron, China Sul. gave only temporary relief; Secale cured. – Tessier.
Nervous system
Hyperesthesia of cutaneous nerves, especially of spine.
